Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-21
Compiled for the Evening Capital
ANNIVERSARY EVENTS.
News, Old News.''-shakespeare.


1744-Birth of William Milford, la
London, the author of a History of
Greece" He died In 1917.
176S-The treaty of peace between Great
Britain and France, concluding the French
and Indian war.
1S6S-Death of Sir David Brewster who
was born at Jedburgh, Scotland, on De-
cember II, 1881. His father was rector Of
the grammar school, and teacher Of con-
siderable reputation, whom neighborhood
fame characterized as ''the best Latin
scholar and the quickest temper In Scot
land" but he was kindly withal. It was
intended that David should become a
minister, and he was sent to the University
Of Edinburgh, to be educated with view
to that profession, when only twelve years
old. His tastes, however, even before that
time, turned into anothar direction, and 1t
is recorded Of his earlier school-days that
he was constantly engaged in investiga.
ting the reasons of natural phenomena,
a spirit that led him to be the leading
scientist of his day.
1876-Dcath of Reverdy johnson, L. L.
d., in Annapolis, Maryland, where he was
born on May 21, 1896.
18S0-Destructio Of the City Hail. AL.
bany, n Y, by fire. Several firemen were
badly injured.
FEBRUARY IL.
165O-Death of Descartes, the philoso
pher.
1735-Birth of Daniel Boone, the In
trcpid hunter in Pennsylvania His death
occurred in Missouri, in 1920
1812-Birth of Alexander IL. Stephens.
the Vice President of the Southern Con-
federacy, in Taliaferro county, Georgia.
He died while holding the governorship
of his native state, In 1888.
1847-Birth of Thomas Alya Edison.
the great inventor and electrician of the
age, in Milan, Erie county, New York.
He resided for several years at Port Huron
Michigan, but lately has been established
at Menlc Park, New Jersey
1SSO-The New Jersey Assembly, by
vote Of nearly three to one, rejected bill
to abolish capital punishment
FEBRUARY 70.
1554-Lady Jane Grey behcaded. She
was proclaimed Queen Of England on July
10, 1868. She was born in 1887.
3-Settlcment If Georgia at Savan.
nah. The sesqui-centenniaI of this event
was held. in that city, with great pomp
and splendof, on February IL, 1888.
1S66-Death of Hon. Horatio Seymour,
at 10 o clock, at the residence of his sister,
Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, in Utica. New
York. He was born in Pompey. Onanda-
ga county, New Yerk, on May 81, 1910.
FEBKUARY 13.
1746-On this day, as the records Of the
French criminal Jurisprudence informsus
one Jean Marie Dunbarry was brought to
the scaffold for numbering his father and
strangely enough, on the 18th OF February
1s40, precisely 100 years later another
Jean Marie Dunbarry, great grandson
of the first named criminal, paid the same
penalty for the same crime
1665-Death Of Thomas Holiday Hicks,
who was born on September 2, 1898. At
the close of his gubernatorial term, in 1853,
he was appointed Z. s. Senator by Gov
ernor Bradford to I'll the unexpircd term
Of Hon. James Alfred Pierce The ap-
pointment was ratified BY The Legislature
at the next session in 1854 He died from
the effects Of . stroke Of appoplexg and
bis funeral-the first-was held IN the
Senate Chamber, at Washington. on The
10Th inst
1882 Death Of Paul A. Chadbourne,
President Of Williams College
Ito be Continucd